Before your post, I had no idea Russell had any special interest in the Chinese. A quick reading or two later, I find it does make your interpretation a lot more likely, considering the context. You win, sir:)
Not only that, but I agree with you too.
Funny you understood it that way. I just saw it as a rephrasing of "Way to go, Einstein!", which only underlines how stupid your interlocutor is by comparing him to a well-known-to-be-non-stupid person.
My German pen-pal discovered this years ago when she came to Montreal (Quebec) to meet me : whatever you want to get, ask for it in whatever French you can manage and most people will try to accommodate you (in Montreal, mostly by switching to English) as best as they can. Later during her stay, it actually became a problem as it kept her from practicing her French because people insisted on speaking English with her. YMMV, though.
Her other tip on visiting Montreal: come during the summer, because the city hibernates during the winter and will seem dead to any visitor.
I respectfully disagree. I was gonna cut you some slack until that one:
Back to the question of ID, I think schools should offer both teachings. Neither are provable as correct or incorrect, they are both theories, but the students should be allowed to decide what they believe in and what makes sense to them.
You can't teach ID as science, because it is not science. If you'll teach it, teach it in theology along with the other creation myths, where it belongs.
We seem to think along the same lines, but for one thing : the belief. Personally, I think I can't know (for pretty much the same reasons that you do, as far as I can tell) so I just sum this part of my grand-map-of-personal-experience with "I don't know, I can't know because it's so out of my reach, so I'll try to base my values on something I have a better grasp on".
A sincere question : how could you get to that point and go (back, IMHO) to one side of the fence and decide it's the right one?
I've been living in the Ottawa region for almost ten years (moved from Montreal) and have yet to hear anyone speak like that. Please enlighten me - tell me where I can hear that fabulous accent?
According to the organization, there was between three to five hundred people (it seemed less than that to me).
It was pretty tame too, but then again how noisy do you expect a few hundred computer geeks to be, let alone Canadian computer geeks?
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Do you know A person who would be willing to be mocked, beaten, stabbed, have their legs and arms broken and eventually DIE on a CRUCIFIX for you?
Can't be sure anyone would do it for me, but I'd do it for any of my kids. Not proving anything, just saying.
I'd be curious to know how you can reach in there... Some tongue you must have :)
Before your post, I had no idea Russell had any special interest in the Chinese. A quick reading or two later, I find it does make your interpretation a lot more likely, considering the context. You win, sir :)
Not only that, but I agree with you too.
Funny you understood it that way. I just saw it as a rephrasing of "Way to go, Einstein!", which only underlines how stupid your interlocutor is by comparing him to a well-known-to-be-non-stupid person.
I saw a BSOD'd ATM in Ottawa. Can't remember the bank, though.
Same here :)
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This is a bit less dry : http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=363731
Wish I had mod points - I'd give them all to you, sir.
My German pen-pal discovered this years ago when she came to Montreal (Quebec) to meet me : whatever you want to get, ask for it in whatever French you can manage and most people will try to accommodate you (in Montreal, mostly by switching to English) as best as they can. Later during her stay, it actually became a problem as it kept her from practicing her French because people insisted on speaking English with her. YMMV, though.
Her other tip on visiting Montreal: come during the summer, because the city hibernates during the winter and will seem dead to any visitor.
Back to the question of ID, I think schools should offer both teachings. Neither are provable as correct or incorrect, they are both theories, but the students should be allowed to decide what they believe in and what makes sense to them.
You can't teach ID as science, because it is not science. If you'll teach it, teach it in theology along with the other creation myths, where it belongs.
We seem to think along the same lines, but for one thing : the belief. Personally, I think I can't know (for pretty much the same reasons that you do, as far as I can tell) so I just sum this part of my grand-map-of-personal-experience with "I don't know, I can't know because it's so out of my reach, so I'll try to base my values on something I have a better grasp on".
A sincere question : how could you get to that point and go (back, IMHO) to one side of the fence and decide it's the right one?
I've been living in the Ottawa region for almost ten years (moved from Montreal) and have yet to hear anyone speak like that. Please enlighten me - tell me where I can hear that fabulous accent?
According to the organization, there was between three to five hundred people (it seemed less than that to me).
It was pretty tame too, but then again how noisy do you expect a few hundred computer geeks to be, let alone Canadian computer geeks?